3 ms·
Apple, FAA Investigating After iPhone Catches Fire Mid-Flight
- miles 10y agoFTA: Spring-break-bound sophomore Anna Crail was watching a movie on Thursday when her iPhone spontaneously caught fire over the Pacific. "All of a sudden there was like 8-inch flames coming out of my phone," she told KOMO News. The teen panicked, telling KOMO that she thought the plane "was going down." "I flipped it off onto the ground, and it got under someone's seat, and the flames were just getting higher, and a bunch of people stood up," she said. (Spotted in a comment by resolaibohp < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646376 > in today's thread about a replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 catching fire on a plane < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645826 >)